Well, in an ideal world, we would be able to tell via the Copyright/License attribution trail. Unfortunately, we don't live in that ideal world. :)<div><br></div><div>The derivatives of Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven are generally pretty easy to spot, once you've spent some time in the code for both (likewise with past default Themes, such as Kubrick and Default). With others, it's more a matter of just eyeballing a ton of Themes, and starting to recognize patterns. (Code in functions.php is usually fairly telling, as is the markup for the Loop and for comments.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Kirk Wight <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwight@kwight.ca">kwight@kwight.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
How do we discover if a submitted theme is simply a derivative of an existing theme? Any hints?
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